skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important to note that it was a panic about an alleged chinese spy balloon, but in all likelihood it was just a weather balloon. There was no proof it was a spy balloon.
Looking at the graphics and knowing the answers, and having limited experience tying knots in serious situations, I still don't intuit why one knot is more secure than another. I have no idea of the principles:

* Increased friction, I assume, is the fundamental difference. Is that correct? That still leaves the question of what, in practice, contributes to friction significantly, what is inconsequential, what works or fails in combination, etc.

* How much friction do different knot components have? Can we determine the strength of a knot by simply adding the friction in different components?

* What effect does compression of the cordage have?

* How much does effect does the cordage material's natural friction have?

* What does failure really depend on, in practice? Powerful traction forces? Lubrication? Back and forth movement (e.g., that loosens the knot)?

* Can 'give' make a significant difference, in either the knot's form or in the material? As in all solid things, a knot with more give should apply less force to failing parts.

* Is distribution of forces important? A knot that distributes powerful forces to multiple spots should perform better, theoretically.

...
Already happened a few times. Japanese streamers have to ask for explicit permission to stream games so they play a lot of western games that allow it, Nintendo didn't allow let's plays for a while, and a game developer didn't like a popular youtuber (pewdiepie I think) and did takedowns of said youtuber playing their game.
An AWACS aircraft within 100 nanometers of you would indeed represent a direct and immediate threat. :)

TIL that nm isn’t actually accepted as an abbreviation for nautical miles. (It’s used so commonly in aviation that I assumed it was correct and it took me 3 or 4 searches to accept that this thing I knew was correct actually wasn’t. Thanks [seriously]!)
Humankind has developed all sorts of systems and processes to cope with the unpredictability of human beings: legal systems, organizational structures, separate branches of government, courts of law, police and military forces, organized markets, double-entry bookkeeping, auditing, security systems, anti-malware software, etc.

While individual human beings do trust some of the other human beings they know, in the aggregate society doesn't seem to trust human beings to behave reliably.

It's possible, though I don't know for sure, that we're going to need systems and processes to cope with the unpredictability of AI systems.
> Because human minds are fallible black boxes, we have developed a wide variety of tools that exist outside our minds, like spoken language, written language, law, standard operating procedures, math, scientific knowledge, etc.

Standard operating procedures are great but simplify it to checklists. Don't ever forget checklists which have proven vital for pilots and surgeons alike. And looking at the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist you might think "that's basic stuff" but apparently it is necessary and works https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/patient...
AI is only a dead end if you expect it to function deterministically. In the same way as people, it's not rational, and it can't be made rational.

For example, the only effective way to get an AI not to talk about Bryan Lunduke is to have an external layer that scans for his name in the output of an AI, if found, stops the session and prints an error message instead.

If you're willing to build systems around it (like we do with people) to limit it's side effects and provide sanity checks, and legality checks like those mentioned above, it can offer useful opinions about the world.

The main thing to remember is that AI is an alien intelligence. Each new model is effectively the product of millions of dollars worth of forced evolution. You're getting Stitch from "Lilo and Stitch", and you'll never be sure if it's having a bad day.
At least it's better than their secret internal definition.

https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-...
What Your 'Face Age' Can Tell Doctors About Your Health
I write the original content or I was in the meeting where I’m giving it the transcript. I know what points I need to get across to both audiences.

Just like I’m not randomly depending on it to do an Amazon style PRFAQ (I was indoctrinated as an Amazon employee for 3.5 years), create a project plan, etc, without being a subject matter expert in the areas. It’s a tool for an experienced writer, halfway decent project manager, AWS cloud application architect and developer.
How would you test this? Claude will play Battleship with an understanding of ship geometry.
https://archive.ph/TouNP
Sure, but many of these people who have left still appear interested in developing AGI (not just enjoying their f u money), but apparently think they have better or same chance of doing so independently, or somewhere else ...
I feel your argument relies on assuming that being an optimist or pessimist means believing 100% or 0%, whereas I'd claim it's instead more just having a relative leaning in a direction. Say after inspecting some rusty old engines a pessimist predicts 1/10 will still function and an optimist predicts 4/10 will function. If the engines do better than expected and 3/10 function, the optimist was closer to the truth despite most not working.

Similarly, being optimistic doesn't mean you have to believe every single early-stage invention will work out no matter how unpromising - I've been enthusiastic about deep learning for the past decade (for its successes in language translation, audio transcription, material/product defect detection, weather forecasting/early warning systems, OCR, spam filtering, protein folding, tumor segmentation, spam filtering, drug discovery and interaction prediction, etc.) but never saw the appeal of NFTs.

Additionally worth considering that the cost of trying something is often lower than the reward of it working out. Even if you were wrong 80% of the time about where to dig for gold, that 20% may well be worth it; reducing merely the frequency of errors is often not logically correct. It's useful in a society to have people believe in and push forward certain inventions and lines of research even if most do not work out.

I think xvector's point is about people rehashing the same denunciations that failed to matter for previous successful technologies - the idea that something is useless because it's not (or perhaps will never be) 100.0% accurate, or the "Until it can do dishes, home computer remains of little value to families"[0] which I've seen pretty much ad verbatim for AI many times (extra silly now that we have dishwashers).

Given in real life things have generally improved (standard of living, etc.), I think it has typically been more correct to be optimistic, and hopefully will be into the future.

[0]: https://pessimistsarchive.org/clippings/34991885.jpg
LLMs are architectures written by humans. What an LLM creates is not algorithmic.
> take over the microphone and address a room with 500 people in it

I'm not sure this has anything to do with introversion.

Speech and debate clubs are filled with introverts. The notion of "stage fright" is completely orthogonal to introversion. You're speaking at people, with YOUR ideas, YOUR words - it's not a dialogue, with shared feelings, mood, etc, which is where introverts generally get drained.
This is an inaccurate generalization of both C and Rust ecosystems, and an inflammatory framing.

openssl has made several rounds of incompatible changes. ffmpeg and related av* libs make major releases frequently. libx264 is famous for having "just pin a commit" approach to releases.

It's common for distros to carry multiple versions of major libraries. Sometimes it's a frequent churn (like llvm), sometimes it's a multi-year migration (gtk, ncurses, python, libpng).

C libraries aren't magically virtuous in their versioning. The language doesn't even help with stability, it's all manual painstaking work. You often don't see these pains, because distro the maintainers do heroic work of testing the upgrades, reporting issues upstream, holding back breaking changes, and patching everything to work together.

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Cargo packages almost never pin specific dependency versions (i.e. they don't depend on exact minor/patch version). Pinning is discouraged, because it works very poorly in Cargo, and causes hard dependency resolution conflicts. The only place where pinning is used regularly is pairs of packages from the same project that are expected to be used together (when it's essentially one version of one package, but had to be split into two files for technical reasons, like derive macros and their helper functions).

By default, and this is universally used default, Cargo allows semver-major-compatible dependency upgrades (which is comparable to sover). `dep = "1.2.3"` is not exact, but means >=1.2.3 && <2.0.0. The ecosystem is quite serious about semver compatibility, and there is a tooling to test and enforce it. Note that in Cargo the first non-zero number in the version is the semver-major.
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all?
Great score on the aider leaderboards: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
He wants you to think he's a selfless hero, and if that fails he'll settle for machiavellian villain. He's really an empty suit.
Have you recently tried it?

Attestation was most definitely removed from Apple's implementation.

For Google, there's still a (relatively obscure) way to get a non-synchronizing/non-discoverable credential (which is then by definition not a passkey!), which then supports attestation, but that's Chrome+Android specific and wouldn't work on e.g. Chrome on Windows or macOS.
> US military is the largest single employer on the planet

Maybe not on the entire planet? I know it doesn't matter and it's not really anything but I guess that's not USDoD. But then again who believes Wikipedia anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers. Besides even if it's true it's barely by a whisker and we shouldn't put further wars (i.e foreign freedom distribution enterprise) past the great nation of USA so that will change on a whim anytime. Cheers.

Also if this link is to be believed then 4 Walmarts (or even 4.5) will be really a lot.
You mentioned that Ghostty gets around 500 FPS, but I tested it myself and only got 160 FPS on M1 Pro (WezTerm gets 400 FPS). What can be the reason?
Hans is a friend of mine, and this is hosted on my VPS. It might be of interest to some that in order to handle the HN Hug Of Death on my little server, I've manually cached this page as HTML on the server and it's served via a rewrite rather than being served by the rather old CMS running an equally old PHP.
I have a forum that receives a high number of DMCA claims. They link to pages on my forum where they claim I'm violating their copyright. However, when I review the pages, the content only mentions the name of a product or service. Imagine I write something here, like how I watched the movie "Inception" last week. A third party then sends me a DMCA request on behalf of Warner Bros, and Google removes this page from their search results. That's what I get, but thousands of them.

It's fairly clear no human is reviewing the content any step of the way, otherwise they would see the only content on the page is a paragraph of plain text with the name of a movie. I feel like I have no recourse though. I don't have the time to make thousands of counter claims for some random forum pages that receive an insignificant amount of search traffic a year.

It feels like a broken system. How can someone pull thousands of my pages from Google, and I'm either forced to spend weeks of my time trying to recover them, or I need to leave them removed? Where is the penalty or punishment for the false claims? Who is going to compensate me for my time?
> code-aware editors have been a thing since the 90s

These will do things like highlight places where you're trying to call a method that isn't defined on the object, but they don't understand the intent of what you're trying to do. The latter is actually important in terms of being able to point you toward the correct solution.
Yes, I agree, but energy efficiency is orthogonal to capabilities.
> But to outsiders, it looks like a scam or bait-and-switch.

It doesn't look like one - it is one.

> We’re excited to welcome the following new donors to OpenAI: Jed McCaleb (opens in a new window), Gabe Newell (opens in a new window), Michael Seibel (opens in a new window), Jaan Tallinn (opens in a new window), and Ashton Eaton (opens in a new window) and Brianne Theisen-Eaton (opens in a new window). Reid Hoffman (opens in a new window) is significantly increasing his contribution. Pieter Abbeel (opens in a new window) (having completed his sabbatical with us), Julia Galef (opens in a new window), and Maran Nelson (opens in a new window) are becoming advisors to OpenAI.

[1] https://openai.com/index/openai-supporters/
You don't know they won't shut down. And how does this compare to a local accounting firm?
DeepSeek's actual website: https://www.deepseek.com/

('yangxiaobo regularly submits copycat landing pages of AI products developed by other people as "Show HN," as evidenced by the posting history: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=yangxiaobo )
Hallucination is an interesting problem for both LLMs and people. This is why we like syntax and unit tests. I think there may be ways to work around it.
Every time I try such machines, I end up talking to a police officer, instead of being recognised.

Additionally, passports don't need to be charged.
Also, is there a known deterministic intelligence? Only very specific computer programs can be made deterministic, and even that has taken quite a while for us to nail down. A lot of code and systems of code produced by humans today is not deterministic and it takes a lot of effort to get it there. For most people and teams its not even on their radar or worth the effort to get it there.
Rats are pretty clever, and they (presumably, at least) have a lot of neurons spending their time computing things like… where to find food, how frightened of this giant reality warping creature in a lab coat should I be, that sort of thing. I don’t think it is obvious that one brown-rat-power isn’t useful.

I mean we have dogs. We really like them. For ages, they did lots of useful work for us. They aren’t that much smarter than rats, right? They are better aligned and have a more useful shape. But it isn’t obvious (to me at least) that the rats’ problem is insufficient brainpower.
yah! https://x.com/amantsegai
It's already required in Federal procurement and if you're seeking FDA approval, they've indicated you should prepare for it. I'd wager it reaches other regulated domains once the standards, experience, and tooling stabilize.
It's already better than real rats-as-a-service, certainly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449424
Build your own local AI voice assistant on Mac
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42495703
The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
A video game contains text, images, videos, and/or audio which are copyrightable, even if the game mechanics nor the player's decisions themselves are not copyrighted by the creators of the game.
Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
It’s not but very likely atleast in my case.
> Would you let it perform your job while you receive the rewards and consequences?

isn't this what being a human manager is? not sure why you're saying it must be entirely + unsupervised. at my job, my boss mostly trusts me but still checks my work and gives me feedback when he wants something changed. he's ultimately responsible for what I do.
Similarly, I've read all of the dozen+ Gray Man books, and they are also great light reading if you like international operative type genre.
We've got a senior dev who uses ChatGPT for his code all the time. Right now I am currently fixing all the exceptions 'his code' pops. Well, I shouldn't say what his code pops. The code ChatGPT generated for him. He just asks ChatGPT, copy pasta, doesn't even run it and checks it in.
“Neo Geo[a] is a brand of video game hardware developed by SNK.

It was launched with the Neo Geo, an arcade system (called MVS) with a home console counterpart (AES). Games on the Neo Geo (MVS and AES) were well received and it spawned several long-running and critically acclaimed series, mostly 2D fighters. Later, SNK released the Neo Geo CD, a more cost-effective console with games released on compact discs, which was met with limited success. A new arcade system, Hyper Neo Geo 64, was released in 1997, but it did not fare well. SNK also released a handheld console under the brand, the Neo Geo Pocket, which was quickly succeeded by the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which have been given praise despite its short lifetime.

SNK encountered various legal and financial issues resulting in a sale of the company in 2001. Despite that, the original Neo Geo arcade and console continued receiving new games under new ownership until 2004. The Neo Geo brand was revived in 2012 with the release of the Neo Geo X[1] handheld. Since then, a number of other Neo Geo products have been released based on the original Neo Geo.”

— Wikipedia

Seems to be from about 30 years ago in the 1990s.
> Strong principled stance

There had never been one. Not with Sam Altman. It was a play put on to get $100+ million in donations. This was always the goal, from day 0. This is trivially obvious considering the person Sam Altman.
Are you allowed to send two emails? One from her?

Can you recon their datetime ahead of time? If you're one second early, you're DQed right? What if their clock has drifted?

Edit: summoning @tomcam -- he might be your guy
I only experienced lucid dreaming as a child. And perhaps one or two times I would find my crush and give them a kiss. I dunno how I feel about lucid dreaming now. I tend to remember dreams and I like to interpret what my subconscious is trying to express through what happens. If I consciously just try to engineer some scene of maximum pleasure instead would something be lost
That's neat but how do I select a panel afterwards? Arrow keys do nothing and hjkl start a search.
Security patches say no, doesn’t work that way.
loud assasination with collateral damage to send a message
The DMCA predates Napster, Gnutella, and Bittorrent. It did nothing to prevent piracy, which exploded in the years after it was passed. Low-enough cost convenient enough subscription services moved people away.
Being a serious business publication, you might think that Bloomberg would tell you about ways to protect your own home or business from problems caused by lower-quality power. (Short of buying out your local grid operator, or going totally off-grid.)

Nope. The article is a pure "click and feel helpless" FUD-fest.

If that doesn't appeal - then there are a pretty wide variety of surge suppressors, power line conditioners, isolation transformers, etc. that one could buy.

And probably a fair number of EE's here on HN, who might (please?) chime in on what - if anything - a reasonable consumer should do about this...
Semantic search in business news – a notebook article
Schrodinger's Job Market, yeah.

The whole conversation is so dishonest.

Every software firm, notable and small, has had layoffs over the past two years, but somehow there's still a "STEM shortage" and companies are "starving for talent" or some such nonsense?

Fake discussion.
lol - thanks for adding to my vocab!

[in defence of raku, while it truly is marmite wrt Ruby / Python, there is a very loyal core of smart people that love the freedom and expressiveness it offers]
Wikipedia goes into some depth on the topic, describing how Christianity fused older traditions into the holiday, in the spirit of goodwill and gift-giving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#Observance_and_tradi...

Every year, some people need to marginalize Christianity's contribution to Christmas despite ample evidence to the contrary. I attribute it to an ignorance of how religion digests culture and evolves, plus the usual resentment towards that religion in particular.
Sounds like a team of misanthropes. How can you be that blind to DevEx?
I have been a Bench customer for eight years. I have simple books, and the service was perfect at the time. Over the last three years, the turnover was bananas - and for the last three years, the year-end financials kept taking longer and longer to complete. This year, it was to the point I was going to leave. They offered a discount and a chance to adjust. They did much better, until this month when the announcement came that you had to sign a year contract and choose within TWO WEEKS to avoid another price hike and FORCED year. That, or leave. I was shocked when I asked if I could at least have my year-end done, as this was happening right at the end of the year. Straight up, the answer was no. You have to have a subscription for the year to get that. I was going to stay the coming year solely because of the timing to move and set up elsewhere, but now, I see this was simply in the cards. They wanted to see if things could be salvaged by how many annuals they got - clearly, there weren't enough. What is MORE of a slap in the face is the AUDACITY to - IN YOUR TERMINATION EMAIL - HAVE AN AFFILIATE RECOMMENDATION TO ANOTHER SERVICE - ARE YOU INSANE???? Do they think we are COMPLETE MORONS??? I smell a lawsuit brewing, not from me but from larger companies. Some things are COMPLETELY rotten here.
Stem Immigration Is Critical to American National Security
Is there even one mention of Bitcoin or other blockchain activity? Its demand on the grid was of interest before FTX, and in 2025 it looks to be back with a vengeance. AI is larger than blockchain, it appears, but they add together.
So your customer/employer is a coder too. They want solve a problem and use a tool: You.

A coder writes code in a programming language, that what distinguishes them from the customers who use natural language. The coder is the translator between the customer and the machine. If the machine does that, the machine is the coder.
The reason I switched from iTerm2 is it took multiple seconds to resize a window on macOS. I use Rectangle to resize windows, and by default my shortcut for "put this window on the left half" cycles through window sizes when the window is already on the left. So a common workflow is to tap Hyper-J to move a window to the left half, then make it the left third, then the left two thirds of the screen. This is fine for any text editor or browser, but iTerm2 would beachball while I waited multiple seconds for it to resize the window.

Wezterm moves instantly.
If you ask it a question and it gives a completely wrong answer, then you ask it why it gave you the wrong answer, can it answer that?
There is recourse, in that a 501c3 is limited in what it can do with it's assets: it must use them to advance its charitable purpose. In this case the OpenAI board will attempt to make the case that this approach, with partial ownership of a public benefit company, is what's best for their mission.

If donors got equity in the PBC or the owned PBC avoided competing with donor owned companies this would not be consistent with the non-profit's mission, and would not be compliant with 501c3 restrictions.